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Cloud Native Telecom Initiative
LF Networking’s new Cloud Native Telecom Initiative (CNTI) brings telco networking and cloud native thought leaders together to advance cloud native networking confidence and adoption.
The CNTI is aimed at accelerating the adoption of Cloud Native technology for networking (as expressed in documents such as the recent NGMN Cloud Native Manifesto) to meet the needs of both vendors and service providers while avoiding fragmentation and creating a unified conformance program. It will start by building on the work of the existing CNCF CNF Certification, CNF Test Suite, and LF Networking’s Anuket Project.
The Cloud Native Telecom Initiative will focus on 3 key areas:
Best Practices
- Documents cloud native and Kubernetes-native best practices for networking.
- Recommends vendor-neutral, foundational best practices.
- Collaborates with LF Networking projects.
Test Catalog
- Develops functional, non-functional, and end-to-end tests based on best practices.
- Creates a robust testing framework and infrastructure.
- Provides remediation on failed tests to help application developers.
Certification
- Built on the foundation of CNCF’s CNF Certification program.
- Extended to address the needs of modern Cloud Native Network Functions.
- Self-executable and community-reviewed.
